Battle Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBDBDEFEFEGEGHIHI A JKJKCCLLMNMNOOPQQP A CRCRSTTSUUVVWWU| I | A |
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| Veteran memories rally to muster | B |
| Here at the call of the old battle days | C |
| Cavalry clatter and cannon's hoarse bluster | B |
| All the wild whirl of the fight's broken maze | C |
| Clangor of bugle and flashing of sabre | B |
| Smoke stifled flags and the howl of the shell | D |
| With earth for a rest place and death for a neighbor | B |
| And dreams of a charge and the deep rebel yell | D |
| Stern was our task in the field where the reaping | E |
| Spared the ripe harvest but laid our men low | F |
| Grim was the sorrow that held us from weeping | E |
| Awful the rush of the strife's ebb and flow | F |
| Swift came the silence our enemy hiding | E |
| Sudden retreat in the cloud muffled night | G |
| Swift as a hawk pounce our hill and dale riding | E |
| Hundreds on hundreds we caught in their flight | G |
| Hard and incessant the danger and trial | H |
| Laid on our squadrons that gladly bore all | I |
| Scorning to meet with delay or denial | H |
| The summons that rang in the battle days' call | I |
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| II | A |
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| Wild days that woke to glory or despair | J |
| And smote the coward soul with sudden shame | K |
| But unto those whose hearts were bold to dare | J |
| All things for honor brought eternal fame | K |
| Lost days undying days | C |
| With undiminished rays | C |
| Here now on us look down | L |
| Illumining our crown | L |
| Of leaves memorial wet with tender dew | M |
| For those who nobly died | N |
| In fierce self sacrifice of service true | M |
| Rapt in pure fire of life disdaining pride | N |
| Men of this soil who stood | O |
| Firm for their country's good | O |
| From night to night from sun to sun | P |
| Till o'er the living and the slain | Q |
| A woful dawn that streamed with rain | Q |
| Wept for their victory dearly won | P |
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| III | A |
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| Days of the future prophetic days | C |
| Silence engulfs the roar of war | R |
| Yet through all coming years repeat the praise | C |
| Of those leal comrades brave who come no more | R |
| And when our voices cease | S |
| Long long renew the chant the anthem proud | T |
| Which echoing clear and loud | T |
| Through templed aisles of peace | S |
| Like blended tumults of a joyous chime | U |
| Shall tell their valor to a later time | U |
| Shine on this field and in the eyes of men | V |
| Rekindle if the need shall come again | V |
| That answering light that springs | W |
| In beaconing splendor from the soul and brings | W |
| Promise of faith well kept and deed sublime | U |
George Parsons Lathrop
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